Yasushi Shigeta, Osaka JP

Yasushi Shigeta, Osaka JP

Card - A card used in a card game comprises a code including at least two groups of code printed in UV-luminous ink on a surface of the card. The groups of code are provided on one side of the surface of the card along a reading direction of a code reader.

01-29-2009

20090026700

Card Shooter Apparatus - A card shooter apparatus comprises a card shooter unit including a card housing for containing a plurality of cards and a card reading unit. The card reading unit has a card guide unit which guides cards pulled out one by one from the card shooter unit and reads at least the number of the card pulled out from the card shooter. A control unit determines the result of a card game based on information about the numbers of the cards sequentially read by the card reading unit. A display unit indicates the result determined by the control unit.

01-29-2009

20090039598

Card Reading Device - A card reader includes a platform, a card shooter mounted on the platform, and a card guide unit. The card guide unit guides cards which are pulled out one by one from the card shooter. One or more black light sensors are provided in the card guide unit to read an ultraviolet-ray reaction code from a card guided by the card guide unit, the ultraviolet-ray reaction code on the card indicating at least the number the card.

02-12-2009

20090066021

Table game system - A table game system comprises cards and a card shooter apparatus. The cards include code elements that are arrayed as an ultraviolet-ray reaction code indicating at least the number of a card. The card shooter apparatus includes a card housing for containing cards, a card guide unit that guides cards pulled out one by one from the card housing, and one or more black light sensors that read the ultraviolet-ray reaction code from a card guided by the card guide unit.

RFID-INCORPORATED GAME CARD AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - An RFID tag-incorporated game card having no irregularities on its surface layers is provided. In a card, an intermediate layer having an RFID tag incorporated therein with an appropriately uniform thickness is held between at least two sheets. The intermediate layer includes the RFID tag and at least two base films arranged to hold the RFID tag between them. The base films are preferably colored black. Alternatively, it is also preferable that the intermediate layer and the sheets are adhered to each other using a black adhesive.

05-06-2010

20100130288

RFID-INCORPORATED GAME TOKEN AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - An RFID tag incorporated game token that does not allow the RFID tag to be easily removed and hardly has failures in the RFID tag during manufacturing or in use is implemented. In the game token, an RFID covered with flexible cover sheets is held between laminate resin films or plates, and these elements are thermally press-bonded, so that the RFID tag is incorporated in a body. The material of the cover sheet is paper, vinyl chloride, polyethylene terephthalate or the like.

05-27-2010

20100133754

PLAYING CARDS AND TABLE GAME SYSTEM - The present invention provides playing cards which allow a code to be read reliably from the cards shot out at various speeds. Playing cards (

06-03-2010

20100314834

SHUFFLED PLAYING CARDS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides shuffled playing cards which eliminate the need for a game host to shuffle cards before games by taking a lot of time as well as eliminate the possibility of cheating. A shuffled playing cards (

12-16-2010

20100327525

SHUFFLED PLAYING CARDS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides shuffled playing cards which eliminate the need for a game host to shuffle cards before games by taking a lot of time as well as eliminate the possibility of cheating. A shuffled playing cards (

12-30-2010

20130134673

SHUFFLED PLAYING CARDS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides shuffled playing cards which eliminate the need for a game host to shuffle cards before games by taking a lot of time as well as eliminate the possibility of cheating. A shuffled playing cards (

05-30-2013

20130147113

SHUFFLED PLAYING CARDS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides shuffled playing cards which eliminate the need for a game host to shuffle cards before games by taking a lot of time as well as eliminate the possibility of cheating. A shuffled playing cards (

06-13-2013

20130277911

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING PLAYING CARDS - A method of delivering cards from a card housing unit during a card game including automatically detecting, using one or more processors, at least one of a card being held within an opening in the card housing unit for a period of time longer than a predetermined period of time or an attempt to manually draw a card from the opening after the card game ends, and based on the automatic detection, controlling, using one or more processors, operation of a lock member to restrict movement of the card relative to the opening in the card housing unit.

10-24-2013

20130292902

SHUFFLED PLAYING CARDS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides shuffled playing cards which eliminate the need for a game host to shuffle cards before games by taking a lot of time as well as eliminate the possibility of cheating. A shuffled playing cards (

11-07-2013

20140033660

PACKING BOX OF PLAYING CARDS - A packing box for packaging of playing cards has, in an assembled state, a shape of a rectangular parallelepiped with six faces including front and rear faces, right and left side faces, and top and bottom faces. The packing box includes cut lines in two locations at a predetermined interval in parallel with a longitudinal direction of the rectangular parallelepiped, and a central band in a portion defined by the cut lines provided in the two locations. The right and left side faces of the packing box can be removed along the cut lines such that side edges of the playing cards within the packing box are exposed.

02-06-2014

20140077453

CARD READER - A card shooter apparatus including a card shooter unit including a card housing which contains a plurality of cards and an opening, a card reading unit which is provided with a card guide unit which guides cards pulled out one by one from the opening onto the game table and reads the number of the card pulled out from the card shooter, a control unit having a processing function to determine win or lose of the card game based on information about the number of the cards sequentially read by the card reading unit, and a display unit which indicates a result determined by the control unit, wherein the card shooter unit, the card reading unit and the control unit are integrated and are able to be set on the game table, and the display unit includes a first display unit which is provided on an upper part of the housing and a second display unit which is provided on a side part of the housing.